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Summer 2009 Courses

Registration for Summer 2009 begins November 11, 2008

Registration for the Summer 2009 semester will begin November 11, 2008. Call your advisor with questions on courses to take, graduation status, Area of Emphasis, and minor classes.

Once registration begins, make certain to register as soon as possible to ensure that you get the classes you need!

ANTHRO 320 Myth, Ritual, Symbol, and Religion Class Number: 6118
Jill White	Instructor: Jill White Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183 Satisfies: CUL or SS2 and Area of Emphasis or UL SS and UL WE Location: D2L Start Date: 5/30/09 Drop Deadline: 7/10/09 Completion Date: 8/7/09 Class Time: INTERNET From Gilgamesh to contemporary symbols and practices, oral tradition and the written word have perpetuated our cultures and societies by preserving and passing their myths and traditions through the generations. This course will survey anthropological theory relating to belief systems and will study mythology, ritual, and symbolism in the belief systems of a variety of cultures around the world.
AVD 328 Musical Theatre History Class Number: 6119
Sarah Meredith	Instructor: Sarah Meredith Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 101 Satisfies: FA and UL WE Location: Room 112A UW-Northeast Wisconsin Learning Center D. J. Bordini Center at Fox Valley Technical College, Appleton Drop Deadline: 7/24/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Meets: 6/13; 7/11; 8/8 Class Time: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. It's more than just show tunes! Musical theater has roots that extend beyond musical performance and reflect our human values and struggles as we order the world around us and tell its story through song and theater.
AVD 360 Art and Ideas Class Number: 6120
	Instructor: Carol Emmons Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183 Satisfies: FA and Area of Emphasis Location: D2L Start Date: 5/30/09 Drop Deadline: 7/10/09 Completion Date: 8/7/09 Class Time: INTERNET To appreciate art is to understand it, and to understand it is to like it! Art is created to serve many purposes and may be viewed in many ways. This course will investigate diverse examples of visual culture, their contexts, and strategies for viewing and understanding art.
COMM 480 Cases in Communication and Media Management Class Number: 6121
Phil Clampitt	Instructor: Phil Clampitt Pre-Requisites: COMM 282 and COMM 200 or 201; RECOMMENDED: COMM 280 Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 101 Satisfies: Elective and ORG COMM Area of Emphasis Location: MAC 217 Drop Deadline: 7/10/09 Completion Date: 8/7/09 Meets: 5/30; 8/1 Class Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Learn from nationally recognized scholar and expert on communication in organizations, Dr. Phil Clampitt, in a hands-on experience that will fuse communication and management theory with practical opportunities for learning. This course will examine the strategies and practices of communications and media management in organizations. You will integrate your knowledge of oral, written, and visual communication to solve real-world cases.
ECON 307 History of Economic Thought Class Number: 6122
Larry Smith	Instructor: Larry Smith Pre-Requisites: Junior standing Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183 Satisfies: SS2, CUL, WE, UL SS Location: D2L Start Date: 6/06/09 Drop Deadline: 7/17/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Class Time: INTERNET Historical development of contemporary economic thought from the mercantilist period to the present emphasizing contributions of major schools of economic thought.
ENG COMP 105 Expository Writing Class Number: 6123
Carl Battaglia	Instructor: Carl Battaglia Pre-Requisites: COMP 100 or 164 or ACT ENG score of >/=25 or SAT Verbal score of >/=590 Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183 Satisfies: English Composition Location: D2L Start Date: 5/30/09 Drop Deadline: 7/10/09 Completion Date: 8/7/09 Class Time: INTERNET Whether you are a teacher or a production manager, a social worker or a customer service specialist, your success will largely depend on your ability to write and write well! This required class focuses on college-level writing skills and principles of logical reasoning, with added attention to improving effective organization of your thoughts and the active development of ideas. The class will also emphasize vital research skills and academic reading and writing.
ENGLISH 333 Literary Themes: The Literature of Laughter Class Number: 6124
Rebecca Meacham	Instructor: Rebecca Meacham Pre-Requisites: Junior Standing. Course is repeatable for credit. Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183 Satisfies: Area of Emphasis or UL Humanities and UL WE (beginning Fall 08 satisfies HS3) Location: D2L Start Date: 6/06/09 Drop Deadline: 7/17/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Class Time: INTERNET What's so funny?  Laugh your way through this online study of satire, parody, puns, regional humor, burlesque, incongruity, black comedy, and irony in literature by U.S. authors.
ENV SCI 370 Emergence of Western Technology Class Number: 6125
Vicki Medland	Instructor: Vicki Medland Pre-Requisites: Chem 108 or 211 or Earth Sc 102 or 202 or 222 or Env Sci 102 or 141 or Geog 222 or Physics 141 or 103 or 180 or 201 and Hum Stud 101 or 201. Interdisciplinary Studies or Nursing major Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183 Satisfies: NPS2 and Self-Directed Area of Emphasis or UL Natural Science for BA-IST and UL WE Location: D2L Start Date: 6/6/09 Drop Deadline: 7/17/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Class Time: INTERNET History of the shift in the technological balance of power from 16th century China, India and the Islamic world to western Europe and later to North America.
FNS 374 Wisconsin First Nations Ethnohistory Class Number: 6126
Lisa Poupart	Instructor: Lisa Poupart Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 101 Satisfies: ETS, Self-Directed Area of Emphasis, UL Humanities for BA-IST (beginning Fall 08 satisfies HS3) Location: MAC 219 Drop Deadline: 7/10/09 Completion Date: 8/7/09 Meets: 5/30; 6/20; 7/18 Class Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm Long before Wisconsin became recognized as an industrial, corporate, and agricultural leader in the upper-Midwest, it was home to multiple tribes of Native American peoples and their rich cultures and societies. This exciting course, taught by Dr. Lisa Poupart, herself an enrolled member of the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Anishinabe (Ojibwe) Indians, will expose you to the rich history of Wisconsin indigenous peoples now living in Wisconsin, including: Anishinabe (Ojibwe,) Oneida (Iroquois,) Menominee, Potawatomi, and Mohican tribes. This course explores the history and culture of one of these nations.
HUM BIOL 217 Human Disease and Society Class Number: 6138
Brian Merkel	Instructor: Brian Merkel Pre-Requisites: HUM BIOL 102 or HUM BIOL 202 Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 101 Satisfies: HB2 Location: MAC 217 Drop Deadline: 7/17/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Meets: 6/6; 6/27; 7/25 Class Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm Whether it’s your child’s school suffering from a break out of the Chicken Pox or 14th Century Europe watching helplessly as 25 million succumb to the Bubonic Plague, world culture and the human race has shaped and has been shaped by disease. This class will focus on the impact of major diseases in humans, their causes, individual effects, historical significance and methods of control.
HUM BIOL 331 Science and Religion: Spirit of Inquiry Class Number: 6139
Craig Hanke	Instructor: Craig Hanke Pre-Requisites: HUM BIOL 102 grade >/= C or BIOLOGY 202 grade >/= C; and Sophomore Standing Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 101 Satisfies: HB2 and UL NS or Area of Emphasis and UL WE Location: MAC 219 Drop Deadline: 7/17/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Meets: 6/6; 6/27; 7/11; 7/25 Class Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm Science and Religion - diametric opposites or two sides of the same coin? Albert Einstein said that “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind,” but is that so? Such questions have prompted scientists and theologians alike to question the nature of science and religion. This course examines the differing world views of science and religion; origins of science in the Judeo-Christian West; sources of conflicts; domains of validity; and limitations of science and religion with special focus on explanations of human nature.
HUM DEV 210 Introduction to Human Development Class Number: 6137
Dean VonDras	Instructor: Dean VonDras Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183   Satisfies: SS1 and Human Development Area of Emphasis and Minor Location: D2L Start Date: 6/06/09 Drop Deadline: 7/17/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Class Time: INTERNET This all-encompassing course is a fascinating look at who we are as human beings and how we have been shaped into the persons and societies that we have become. This “cradle to grave” analysis will focus on human development from the point of conception and will chart our development throughout the lifespan, up to and including death. You will look not only at physical development, but also at social, emotional, and personality development. You will look at the development of language, intellectual development and creativity, and the process of human learning.
HUM DEV 424 Developing Creative and Critical Thinking Class Number: 6127
Lloyd Noppe	Instructor: Lloyd Noppe Pre-Requisites: HUM DEV 210 or PSYCH 102; and Junior Standing or UL HUM DEV / PSYCH course Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183   Satisfies: Critical Thinking Skills, UL Writing Emphasis, Self-Directed Area of Emphasis, UL Social Science for BA-IST, HUM DEV minor Location: D2L Start Date: 5/30/09 Drop Deadline: 7/10/09 Completion Date: 8/7/09 Class Time: INTERNET One of the great strengths of the IST major is its focus on creative and critical thinking and using these skills to communicate and to solve problems. This dynamic class looks at how we define, facilitate, and assess "creative thinking" throughout the lifespan. Attention will be directed toward discussion of controversial contemporary issues and will review different techniques for facilitating deeper thought.
HUM STUD 101 Foundations of Western Culture I Class Number: 6129
	Instructor: Heidi Sherman Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 184 Satisfies: H1 (beginning Fall 08 satisfies HS1) Location: D2L Start Date: 5/30/09 Drop Deadline: 7/10/09 Completion Date: 8/7/09 Class Time: INTERNET This course will focus on the very foundations of what we now recognize as Western Civilization, examining major events, people, and ideas that have influenced the history, literature, art, and culture of our Western society. Specific focus will begin on ancient civilizations though the Renaissance.
HUM STUD 101 Foundations of Western Culture I Class Number: 6128
	Instructor: Kevin Kain Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183 Satisfies: H1 (beginning Fall 08 satisfies HS1) Location: D2L Start Date: 5/30/09 Drop Deadline: 7/10/09 Completion Date: 8/7/09 Class Time: INTERNET This course will focus on the very foundations of what we now recognize as Western Civilization, examining major events, people, and ideas that have influenced the history, literature, art, and culture of our Western society. Specific focus will begin on ancient civilizations though the Renaissance.
HUM STUD 201 Introduction to Humanities I Class Number: 6130 (section 183) 6131 (section 184)
Catherine Henze	Instructor: Catherine Henze Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183 & 184  Satisfies: H1 (beginning Fall 08 satisfies HS2) Location: D2L Start Date: 6/6/09 Drop Deadline: 7/17/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Class Time: INTERNET The study of the humanities molds how we think about our lives and ourselves. Don’t miss this stimulating and thought-provoking course that will examine major methods and ideas of western humanities through selected works of literature, philosophy, and fine arts from the Classical world through the Renaissance.
HUM STUD 202 Introduction to Humanities II Class Number: 6132
Carl Battaglia	Instructor: Carl Battaglia Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183   Satisfies: H2 (beginning Fall 08 satisfies HS2) Location: D2L Start Date: 6/6/09 Drop Deadline: 7/17/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Class Time: INTERNET This course will analyze ideas and methods of the western humanities as studied through the lens of literature, philosophy, and the fine arts. Be prepared to go in-depth to study these issues, focusing on the Baroque period up through modern day.
PHILOS 101 Introduction to Philosophy Class Number: 6133
Chris Martin	Instructor: Chris Martin Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183 Satisfies: H3 (beginning Fall 08 satisfies HS3) Location: D2L Start Date: 6/6/09 Drop Deadline: 7/17/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Class Time: INTERNET This class will serve as your entrée into new and different ways of thinking and viewing the world. Through the analysis of basic ideas and problems of philosophy, you will study various disciplines and schools of philosophical thought. You will also study the work of well-known ancient and contemporary philosophers and examine important philosophical issues and their relevance to the present.
PHILOS 216 Introduction to Asian Philosophy Class Number: 6134
Hye-Kyung Kim	Instructor: Hye-Kyung Kim Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183   Satisfies: CUL or H3 (beginning Fall 08 satisfies HS3) Location: D2L Start Date: 5/30/09 Drop Deadline: 7/10/09 Completion Date: 8/7/09 Class Time: INTERNET Eastern philosophy has long captured the interest of Western thinkers and this class will serve as your introduction to thinkers and major issues of Asian philosophy, including Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
PSYCH 435 Abnormal Psychology Class Number: 6135
	Instructor: Linda Steiner-Pascascio Pre-Requisites: PSYCH 102; REC: Upper-level PSYCH/HUM DEV Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183  Satisfies: UL SS or Area of Emphasis and PSYCH Minor Location: D2L Start Date: 6/6/09 Drop Deadline: 7/17/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Class Time: INTERNET No. This is not the study of your best friend. Or maybe it is? From humanity's earliest days we have sought to understand why we behave as we do, and especially why we behave in ways that seem beyond the borders of what we often see as "normal." This class will utilize psychology, biology, and sociology as tools to help you understand abnormal human behavior from early childhood into old age. This analysis will be made looking through the microscope of contemporary societal class and gender roles and will review methods of diagnosis and treatment.
PU EN AF 337 Principles & Practices of Disaster Response Operations and Management Class Number: 6001
Larry Reed	Instructor: Larry Reed Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 701 Satisfies: Emergency Management Area of Emphasis or UL Social Science for BA-IST majors Location: MAC 103 Drop Deadline: Completion Date: 8/4/09 Meets: 5/29; 5/30; 6/26; 6/27; 7/24; 7/25 Class Time: Fridays 5:30 - 10:00 pm Saturdays 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Examine the roles and responsibilities of the players in a crisis event. Explore the various problems associated with response operations such as: inadequate preparedness measurers, safety and site security, politics, and record keeping.
SOCIOL 202 Introduction to Sociology Class Number: 6136
Karen Dalke	Instructor: Karen Dalke Pre-Requisites: None Credits Awarded: 3 Class Section: 183 Satisfies: SS1 Location: D2L Start Date: 6/6/09 Drop Deadline: 7/17/09 Completion Date: 8/14/09 Class Time: INTERNET Major sociological concepts and ideas and their application to contemporary problems of societies.

Registration

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Please contact the Office of the Registrar at (920) 465-2657 with questions pertaining to your registration time.